Message

I say again:

There may well be a Higher Power

Or Powers

Out there

Somewhere.

Even a Higher Intelligence.

If there is,

I have a Message

For Him, Her, Them, You:

SOS.

Paul Butters

Dawn Vision

                                            (Awake the Dawn by Sword of the Spirit)

Dawn breaks,

Awaking me to our universe:

Ever expanding,

Into infinite space.

Billions of stars,

Planet and moons.

Countless possibilities,

Multiverse or not.

Too vast to comprehend.

Together we are

But a leaf in the forest,

Drop in the ocean,

Grain of sand on the beach.

Lost in orderly chaos.

One sparkle in a firework display.

Logically there should be higher powers

And maybe one supreme being, ruling all.

Call it Gods or God

Whatever you like.

Feel free to choose your own.

Select from the maelstrom of energy and life

That is out there.

Choose from intelligences way beyond our reckoning.

For names are nothing but convenience

For we ants

As we look up at the stars.

Paul Butters

While It Lasts

No life or death

Pain or pleasure

Galaxy

Or Universe

No more beautiful dawns or dusks

No world of wonders

Or anything

Once we are gone.

So it’s Now Boys!

Attention!

As Huxley said

On “Island”.

Live for Now.

For this very moment.

Stop.

Let your mind go blank.

Listen to your body

And all that surrounds you.

Breathe in the oxygen

That gives us life.

Admire the sky

And all beneath it.

Join with nature:

Sapping grass and foliage

The song of birds

As Mummy Sparrow feeds her fluffy chick

Its beak open wide

Clamouring for food.

Enjoy it all

While it lasts.

Paul Butters